Singapore Management University (SMU) today announced that SMU’s Yong Pung How School of Law is joining Legora’s Legal AI Scholars Program, becoming the first university in Asia to do so. […]
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The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced on September 8 that it reached an agreement with Kansas in a lawsuit alleging discrimination against a servicemember, marking another example of the federal government using civil-rights enforcement tools against a state-level employer.

While the public announcement was brief, the development is significant for employment lawyers, government counsel, and compliance teams…
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From : Blog Entry >> Danial’s Blog EntryThe first thing you notice at ILTACON is the energy. Thousands of legal technology professionals, IT leaders, knowledge management specialists, innovation officers, and vendor partners filling session halls and demo floors with an urgency that is unmistakable. These are people who have spent years building the infrastructure that modern law firms run…
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Zoom Communications, Inc. has launched a new inter partes review at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, filing IPR2026-00470 on September 2, 2026. The proceeding adds another potentially significant dispute to the PTAB docket and is one that patent litigators, prosecution counsel, and in-house IP teams may want to track closely.

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Today, we are opening the hood on the invisible infrastructure quietly reshaping global finance. For decades, the financial world has operated on fragmented rails, slow settlements, opaque intermediaries, and capital locked in static accounts earning next to nothing. A pittance, dare I say!

But what if the underlying engine of money was open, instant, and directly connected to the owner? …
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Chronologies have become one of legal tech’s hottest categories, with a wave of AI startups promising to turn a messy evidentiary record into a structured timeline in minutes. Jeff Kerr and his company Casefleet were more than a decade ahead of the pack.Kerr finished law school in 2010 and made what he calls the crazy decision to start a law…
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Flexible legal services provider Latitude Legal has promoted chief revenue officer Alex Su to president, in a move that sees co-founder and chief executive Ross Booher hand over day-to-day operational […]
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OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, its latest frontier model, promising a significant step forward in computer use and complex, multi-step professional work. For the legal sector, early reactions suggest that […]
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By Tom Saunders Private equity-backed legal services group Lawfront has resumed its acquisition drive, with member firms Fisher Jones Greenwood and Farleys completing tuck-in deals, acquiring Giles Wilson and Houldsworth […]
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Register HERE AI is everywhere in legal. Trust is another matter. Nearly half of legal organisations have now embedded AI into their workflows. Yet just 33% of senior professionals trust the […]
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